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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Towards a model framework for a local level collective bargaining system for street traders: CTCP

    Case study of CTCP, (Confederación de Trabajadores por Cuenta Propia) which is affiliated to FNT (Frente Nacional de los Trabajadores). CTCP...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Brazil Law: Lei No. 6.586 (Brazil) – Classifica o comerciante ambulante para fins trabalhistas e previdenciários

    Brazilian law classifying street vendors for the purpose of labor and social security law.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Castellanos, Themis. Implementación de la Ley y Reglamento que Regula la Actividad de los Recicladores (Ley No 29419) en los gobiernos locales. Estudio de caso de la Municipalidad de San Luis y Santiago de Surco, Lima, July 2014

    Informe con dos estudios de caso sobre mejores prácticas en la instrumentación de la Ley No. 29419 y su regulación en dos localidades de...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Design for Shoeshiners in CDMX – Team 6

    Designs prepared for Mexico City Shoe Shiner’s Union by a group of design students from Mexico City’s IberoAmerican University.  ...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Reglamento de la Ley No. 29429 que regula la actividad de los recicladores

    Texto del reglamento de la Ley No. 29429 que regula la actividad de los recicladores. Vea también la Ley No. 29429.

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Nohra Padilla, Third Generation Recycler and Advocate for Organizing the Working Poor

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  • Legal Instruments

    Law: Hawaii Act 248 – An Act Relating to Labor (Domestics)

    Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights for the state of Hawaaii

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  • Legal Instruments

    Beat That Ticket: A Guide to Important Street Vendor Regulation in New York City

    This pamphlet provides street vendors with the necessary information for understanding and answering ticcketing questtions.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Information and Application for Roaming Food Vending Permits on City Property

    “This document provides information on the The Roaming Food Vending Permit which encompasses the sale of approved food and non-alcoholic...

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  • Presentations

    OHS Initiative for Informal Workers – The Case Study of Brazil

    OHS Learning Meeting May 2011

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